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Re: Goodbye Drizzle

AlienRedrum — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:39:52 -0000

Ug.

Re: Help Save Drizzle & Juno

JamesFerguson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:44:54 -0000

Thanks Tom. It means a lot. Sorry to be a bummer on your birthday.

Re: Help Save Drizzle & Juno

fnordboy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:21:04 -0000

:(

Hope my little bit helps. I spent a ton of money when one of my cats got sick, unfortunately we had to put her to sleep but I would have shelled out 10,000 more just to get more time with her. They are your babies whether it's 3 days or 20 years.

Re: Poor Poor Awkward GameStop Guy

JamesFerguson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:39:08 -0000

Thanks?

Re: James Knows…Movies: Inglourious Basterds (2009)

JamesFerguson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:38:50 -0000

From what I understand, that's Tarantino's MO. He uses similar styles or outright copies or steals things from other movies. I'd give this movie a second viewing if there's a director's cut. The whole thing felt rushed and it just didn't work.

Yes, I have seen Carrie. I thought it was one of the better King adaptations.

Re: Poor Poor Awkward GameStop Guy

Bobby C — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:07:11 -0000

Man, I can't believe you can be a judgmental prick. I have faith in you though, you're still young.

Re: James Knows…Movies: Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Bobby C — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:59:48 -0000

Unlike you, I loved the movie! I found it gripping, funny and wildly entertaining! Tarantino, ever the master storyteller and this one is another instant classis for me! Btw, have you seen De Palma's Carrie? It's one of my all-time favorite movies; it's an adaptation of a Stephen King novel, btw. Anyway, Tarantino is a fan of De Palma, and watching Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino used similar camerawork that De Palma used in Carrie especially the prom scene. I can't wait for the Blu-Ray to come out! You may have to give this movie a second viewing. One of my favorite movies of the year, definitely in my top 5-- along with Watchmen, The Hurt Locker and District 9.

Re: Internet Superstars to TV Reference

Itafroma — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:48:31 -0000

I thought the way they incorporated it was something only the Office could've pulled off: it's passé now, but Michael Scott and Jim's brothers doing it is exactly who they are on the show, so it worked well.

Another YouTube to Network TV adaptation recently was the appearance of Kate "Oates" Micucci (of Garfunkel and Oates) on Scrubs with the song F**k You.

Garfunkel and Oates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIX0I2F-CO0
Scrubs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qheMWJkk44

Re: What the Hell Happens With These Stephen King Movies?

AlienRedrum — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:17:34 -0000

Make no mistake, Christine (the book) is leagues better than the movie, but the movie is still pretty enjoyable (and it's directed by John Carpenter when he was still pumping out great movies).

I would recommend watching it first, then reading the book as if you like the movie, you will enjoy the book that much more.

Regarding The Green Mile, rent that now. It's a pretty damn good adaptation of the book, and an incredibly solid cast. It's an excellent movie all around.

Re: What the Hell Happens With These Stephen King Movies?

JamesFerguson — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:01:57 -0000

I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're right. The character growth is something that's essential to a King story and that's something that's easy to portray throughout the course of a book. In a movie though it's tough to get that perspective, although they seem to be able to do it in other non-King movies.

I haven't seen The Green Mile or Christine yet. I loved the book(s) for Green Mile. Haven't read Christine yet. I might try to plow though it before the end of the month to watch the movie first. Should I try to watch the movie before?

Plus, totally agree about Darabont. The guy is awesome.

Re: What the Hell Happens With These Stephen King Movies?

AlienRedrum — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:57:20 -0000

I think the biggest problems with King's film clunkers is the filmmakers are in such a hurry to get to the scary stuff they forget what makes King books so awesome: the characters.

So instead of taking time to really develop great characters, they plow through just so they can get to what they think people want to see. But if you don't care about the characters, you don't care much about the movie.

If you look at the King film classics: Stand by Me, Shawshank, Misery, The Green Mile, Carrie and to some degree Christine, they all have very memorable characters in the movie. I have seen Pet Sematary probably four time since it came (as recently as last year) and I still have a hard time remembering what happens in much of the movie because it's such a clunky script.

However, I haven't seen The Green Mile in probably two years, but I remember much about it because it was so well done. You actually cared about John Coffy (like the drink, only not spelled the same).

I tend to now take King movie announcements with a grain of salt, because chances are they will suck more than not (unless Darabont is behind the lens), but I'll see them regardless with a small glimmer of hope.

Re: The South is Bigger Than I Thought

JamesFerguson — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:00:52 -0000

That's deep, man.

Also, I read that first part as "I intended to take a dump today, but I thought about it instead."

Re: The South is Bigger Than I Thought

ant — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:23:59 -0000

I intended to save the world today, but i took a dump instead. Does the thought really count? No but i can think it did and then wonder if thinking if i thought it counted mattered and then i can say sure why not?

Re: Eat Poo, You Cat: The New York Edition

JamesFerguson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:36:37 -0000

Let's not say things that we can't take back, OK?

Re: Hey! Is That a Dead Baby?

AlienRedrum — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:24:52 -0000

Best tag/tag combination EVER.

Re: Eat Poo, You Cat: The New York Edition

AlienRedrum — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:18:05 -0000

That finger flicking picture is all sorts of awesome.

I would have swung by if I wasn't in Arizona and New Mexico. I would have brought a date in the form of LDG, too. She lives close.

Re: Is it a Kilt? Or is it a Skirt?

JamesFerguson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:14:51 -0000

Not from North Carolina. New York. Also, banned again. Please stop posting.

Re: Is it a Kilt? Or is it a Skirt?

Name — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:16:07 -0000

Im so white im see through and i burn from the breeze of the wind on a hot day lol. If i remember correctly you come from North Carolina. Unless your grandfather was Irish born i doubt 100% you can say your Irish as 6 million of the ppl in that state have Scots and Presbyterian Scot ancestry.

Re: Is it a Kilt? Or is it a Skirt?

JamesFerguson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:50:31 -0000

The name might be Scottish, but I'm not. My grandfather was Irish. I've got the pasty skin to prove it.

Re: Is it a Kilt? Or is it a Skirt?

Name — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:08:12 -0000

Actually i can safely say your Scottish not Irish given the name Ferguson comes from Scotland but arrived in Ulster (Northern Ireland) after the re settlement of Presbyterian farmers from the low lands of Scotland.

A lot of these farmers where barely in Ulster 5 mins before hoping on a boat to America. Presbyterian Scots counted for more than half the American revolutionary army and if it wasnt for the Scottish concepts of freedom and independence there would have been no revolution let alone a deceleration of independence.

"Yet if he should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King; for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom -- for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

From the treaty of of Arbroath 6th of April 1320

Re: Is it a Kilt? Or is it a Skirt?

JamesFerguson — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:17:04 -0000

Thanks S. As I mentioned, I really had no actual knowledge of the topic. It's something that hasn't really been a point of discussion in America, I think.

Also, the idea of "pants purists" is kind of funny to me.

Re: Is it a Kilt? Or is it a Skirt?

JamesFerguson — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:15:45 -0000

My blog is here to entertain as well as educate. The more you know.

Re: Is it a Kilt? Or is it a Skirt?

horrorfreak666 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:25:27 -0000

Wow, the kistory of kilts. Thank you for enlightening me in kilts.

Re: Is it a Kilt? Or is it a Skirt?

David — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:09:11 -0000

If you would like some information on the history of kilts, to better understand why they don't have to be tartan, then I invite you to visit my site at http://www.your-kilt.com

Kind Regards,

David.

Re: Is it a Kilt? Or is it a Skirt?

S. Holland — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:14:06 -0000

Monica is right. The word kilt means 'to pleat'. Original kilts were not plaid... they weren't even stitched. The wearer had to fold the pleats by hand and then gather them around his waist with a belt. Tartans affiliated with clans have only been around for a few centuries, before that kilts were made out of whatever cloth was available. Irish kilts today are not plaid, but a solid saffron yellow.

I wear kilts exclusively. I started wearing them when I started taking bagpipe lessons and liked them so much I started wearing them all the time. I have a few non-tartan kilts and occasionally get flak from people who are under the misconception that plaid has always been the standard.

The main thing that makes a kilt different from just any skirt is the way that it's tailored. Kilts are cut for a man's hips. If a woman puts on a man's kilt (as opposed to a kilted skirt), the pleats won't fall straight down and, if the cloth is plaid, the pattern will no longer match from one pleat to the next. That's really the only thing that truly makes a kilt a kilt. There are the dorks out there who will claim that in addition to being cut for men and pleated, a kilt has to have x, y or z property to qualify as a kilt. The problem with that is that the kilt has been evolving over the centuries just like pants have. "Traditional" pants had separate legs the needed to be laced together. You just don't hear about that because there aren't 'pants purists' like there are kilt 'purists'.